Formula fed babies

How often are you feeding your babies - i feel like baby Is constantly rooting and I don’t know if I’m mistaking hunger queues and over feeding and baby is actually uncomfortable as she’s really unsettled in an evening she’s 7 weeks on 5 oz and feeds around every 2-3 hours -sometimes longer if we’re out and about and overnight

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Formula babies can cluster feed too especially during the evening as they are preparing for overnight(my health visitor told me). My little one is 9 weeks and is on 5/6oz every 3-4 hrs during the day x

Hey! My little girl is 8 weeks and can go between 2-4 hours in the day on 5oz then will have her last feed around 11pm/ midnight and then go between 4-6 hours at night
Sometimes she has gone 7/8 hours at night
If she goes longer at night between feeds, she almost definitely goes 2 hours bang on during the day
Occasionally she will have a 4 hour gap in the day and have 5oz then her next two feeds will be 2 hours apart and she will only have 3oz

So long as baby is having plenty of wet and dirty nappies, I’m sure it’s okay
If your little one is overfeeding, most of the time it will come back up and out, instead of just sitting there

Don’t forget too, 6-8 weeks is common time for peak crying and being unsettled and often there is the ‘witching hour’ in the evenings where nothing will work really!
Trust your gut Mumma, but of course there are health professionals for advice too if you’re worried 🤍

that’s completely normal ..my boy is having the exact same if not more frequent than that and he’s now moving up to 6oz , he’s only just 7 weeks

7 week old is on 6oz he'll feed anything between 2 and half and 4 hourly. Then will have a longer stretch between 5-7 hours in the night

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